"You want to know who's a real medicine man? He's the one who doesn't say 'I'm a medicine man', He doesn't ask you to come to him. You've got to go and ask him. And you'll find he's always there among his own people. He doesn't go off to the city and open an office. Once a medicine man leaves his own territory, he loses most of his power. All the sacred plants he knows are where he comes from. He doesn't know the plants of other places. The Creator gave him his gift so he could serve his own people, not somebody else. The people he's supposed to help are people where he's from. So he stays home and helps them. That's who a real medicine man is." - Louis Farmer, Onondaga, Wisdomkeepers by Steve Wall & Harvey Arden
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